The great catastrophe: causes of the Permo-Triassic marine mass extinction

PB Wignall, DPG Bond - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The marine losses during the Permo-Triassic mass extinction were the worst ever
experienced. All groups were badly affected, especially amongst the benthos (eg …

[HTML][HTML] To what extent can decommissioning options for marine artificial structures move us toward environmental targets?

AM Knights, AJ Lemasson, LB Firth, N Beaumont… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is key to international energy transition
efforts and the move toward net zero. For many nations, this requires decommissioning of …

Climate change is an important predictor of extinction risk on macroevolutionary timescales

CM Malanoski, A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt, PJ Valdes… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Anthropogenic climate change is increasing rapidly and already impacting biodiversity.
Despite its importance in future projections, understanding of the underlying mechanisms by …

Forty years later: The status of the “Big Five” mass extinctions

CR Marshall - Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 - cambridge.org
Over 40 years ago, Raup and Sepkoski identified five episodes of elevated extinction in the
marine fossil record that were thought to be statistically distinct, thus warranting the term the …

Colonialism shaped today's biodiversity

NB Raja - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
The effects of the redistribution of flora and fauna by European empires are still visible in
global biodiversity today and can be traced through the distribution of introduced species …

Response of Siliceous Marine Organisms to the Permian‐Triassic Climate Crisis Based on New Findings From Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

WJ Foster, G Asatryan, S Rauzi… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Siliceous marine ecosystems play a critical role in sha** the Earth's climate system by
influencing rates of organic carbon burial and marine authigenic clay formation (ie, reverse …

Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change

GH Mathes, CJ Reddin, W Kiessling… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To determine the degree to which assemblages of planktonic foraminifera track thermal
conditions. Location The world's oceans. Time Period The last 700,000 years of glacial …

Metabolic regulation reduces the oxidative damage of arid lizards in response to moderate heat events

X Han, B Sun, Q Zhang, L Teng, F Zhang… - Integrative …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming poses a significant threat to species worldwide, particularly those
inhabiting arid and semi‐arid regions where extreme temperatures are increasingly …

Marine species and assemblage change foreshadowed by their thermal bias over Early Jurassic warming

CJ Reddin, JP Landwehrs, GH Mathes… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
A mismatch of species' thermal preferences to their environment may indicate how they will
respond to future climate change. Averaging this mismatch across species may forewarn …

Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology

A Tomašových, S Dominici, R Nawrot, M Zuschin - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using
the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem …